What Do You Think About During a Layover in Phoenix?

Two thoughts as I wrap up this business trip:

1) Eating in a sports bar in the Phoenix airport is the modern day equivalent of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. All these lonely souls are just passing through.

2) One of the benefits of moving to New York City (as Steph and I will in Autumn 2005) will be that reading the New York Times in public won’t make me self-conscious anymore. (I know it’s the paper of record ...I just always feel awkward reading a paper named after a city on a far-away coast.)